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Syncopation

//ˌsɪŋ.kəˈpeɪ.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof. uncountable, usually
  2. 2
    music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm wordnet
  3. 3
    The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter. uncountable, usually
  4. 4
    a musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat wordnet
  5. 5
    (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in ‘fo'c'sle’ for ‘forecastle’) wordnet

Etymology

From syncopate + -ion. The phonological sense was first attested in English in the 1530's, the musical sense in the 1590's.

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